Re: Copying from NTFS partition in Nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:11 +0900, Sunjae Park wrote:
> Thanks for your help, but... I think the problem persists.
> 
> One thing that is really puzzling me is when the file is freshly
> copied, the MD5 sums match occasionally. The files are read-only,
> since they were copied from a read-only NTFS partition. 
> 
> However, after a while (I might have touched the files somehow, but I
> don't remember doing anything to modify them. just mv'ing and
> unzipping a few ZIP files, viewing two AVI's) the MD5 sums suddenly
> change. This doesn't happen to the files that I cp'ed or otherwise
> downloaded (all my ISO's and AVI's that I had downloaded via
> BitTorrent are okay). 
> 
> This is very perplexing. Any pointers on how I can further investigate
> this will be appreciated.

Can you try building gnome-vfs with the attached patch and test again?

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Index: modules/file-method.c
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RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gnome-vfs/modules/file-method.c,v
retrieving revision 1.144
diff -u -p -r1.144 file-method.c
--- modules/file-method.c	15 Jul 2005 13:46:53 -0000	1.144
+++ modules/file-method.c	4 Oct 2005 07:19:41 -0000
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@
 #define DIR_SEPARATORS "/"
 #endif
 
+#undef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
+
 #if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION (2,7,0)
 /* g_access lifted from GLib */
 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32